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INTRODUCTION
Stakeholders in a Learning Environment
For today's educational institutes, it is pertinent to acknowledge, identify and classify those entities or persons which have an influence or being influenced by the progression or failure of an educational institute or have any kind of interest in its sustainability, known as “stakeholders”(Kettunen, 2014). An institution's progress and eminence depend upon its relationship with its stakeholders as they are the one who becomes a part in the success or failure of its system. According to(Alves, Mainardes, and Raposo, 2010; Freeman, 1984; Freeman and Evan, 1990; Mitchel, Agle and Wood, 1997) ‘organizations', ‘networks' and ‘private people' are the parties which are considered as stakeholder as these parties provide support to the educational institution in the fulfillment of their prescribed objectives and goals. Stakeholders are divided into two categories: 1) Internal 2) External.
Faculty and students are the internal stakeholders while on the other hand the quality of educational institutes determined by the external stakeholders(Becket and Brookes, 2006) including parents, alumni and employers. Parents are the body who have vested higher interest in their children educational institute for their better and bright future but they can put little influence on the progression of that institute(Gross and Godwin, 2005). Employers play their role while hiring the graduated or undergraduate students of a particular educational institute. Employers not only influence an educational institutes success but also they have high interest in their educational system, that how they prepare their students for the workplace and what kind of trainings they are providing to their students for quick placement in the industry. So that employers do not put extra efforts on the fresh candidates for their retraining and development.
Thus educational institutes need to understand the requirements of industrial employers that what they require from their prospective employees and should start providing those trainings to the students for their institutes success(Gross and Godwin, 2005).
Concept of Engagement
Researchers are of the view that the concept of engagement is the consequence of a substantial human motivation model which has been intricate and developing from the past several decades(Connell and Wellborn, 1991; Deci and Ryan, 1985, 2000; Skinner, 1991; Wellborn, 1991). As opposed to engagement, the concept of disengagement exist in which the level of engagement...